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The crystal structure of tris(4-methyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methane, C13H16N6

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Published/Copyright: January 31, 2022

Abstract

C13H16N6, orthorhombic, Pbca (No. 61), a = 16.097(2) Å, b = 9.8309(13) Å, c = 17.349(2) Å, β = 90°, V = 2745.4(6) Å3, Z = 8, Rgt (F) = 0.0434, wRref(F2) = 0.1302, T = 296(2) K.

CCDC no.: 2142297

The molecular structure is shown in the figure. Table 1 contains crystallographic data and Table 2 contains the list of the atoms including atomic coordinates and displacement parameters.

Table 1:

Data collection and handling.

Crystal: Colourless block
Size 0.20 × 0.10 × 0.10 mm
Wavelength: Mo Kα radiation (0.71073 Å)
μ: 0.08 mm−1
Diffractometer, scan mode: Bruker apex-II, φ and ω
θmax, completeness: 25.5°, >99%
N(hkl)measured, N(hkl)unique, Rint: 19561, 2544, 0.031
Criterion for Iobs, N(hkl)gt: Iobs > 2 σ(Iobs), 1960
N(param)refined: 175
Programs: Bruker [1], Olex2 [2], SHELX [3, 4]
Table 2:

Fractional atomic coordinates and isotropic or equivalent isotropic displacement parameters (Å2).

Atom x y z Uiso*/Ueq
C1 0.21029 (9) 1.08294 (15) 0.55016 (8) 0.0437 (4)
H1 0.187962 1.173265 0.562071 0.052*
C2 0.12640 (10) 0.87939 (17) 0.50670 (9) 0.0504 (4)
H2 0.158921 0.849186 0.465834 0.061*
C3 0.05414 (10) 0.82261 (17) 0.53151 (11) 0.0560 (4)
C4 0.03063 (11) 0.9042 (2) 0.59252 (12) 0.0687 (5)
H4 −0.017326 0.889550 0.621235 0.082*
C5 0.00951 (14) 0.7018 (2) 0.49969 (16) 0.0911 (8)
H5A 0.029605 0.682721 0.448725 0.137*
H5B −0.048988 0.720451 0.497621 0.137*
H5C 0.019226 0.624478 0.532290 0.137*
C6 0.30414 (11) 1.00906 (18) 0.44127 (11) 0.0564 (4)
H6 0.336176 0.943716 0.466151 0.068*
C7 0.30784 (12) 1.0425 (2) 0.36546 (11) 0.0641 (5)
C8 0.24796 (13) 1.1421 (2) 0.35705 (10) 0.0689 (5)
H8 0.236471 1.184603 0.310350 0.083*
C9 0.36499 (18) 0.9829 (3) 0.30556 (16) 0.1057 (9)
H9A 0.415363 1.035060 0.303518 0.159*
H9B 0.338245 0.985171 0.256122 0.159*
H9C 0.377784 0.890467 0.318886 0.159*
C10 0.30912 (10) 1.14057 (17) 0.65582 (9) 0.0478 (4)
H10 0.297547 1.233046 0.659345 0.057*
C11 0.36572 (10) 1.07116 (19) 0.69867 (10) 0.0533 (4)
C12 0.35990 (11) 0.93813 (19) 0.67086 (10) 0.0584 (5)
H12 0.392037 0.866627 0.689368 0.070*
C13 0.41946 (14) 1.1257 (2) 0.76230 (13) 0.0865 (7)
H13A 0.433794 1.218519 0.751420 0.130*
H13B 0.469199 1.072195 0.765949 0.130*
H13C 0.389754 1.121240 0.810215 0.130*
N1 0.14227 (7) 0.98762 (13) 0.55228 (7) 0.0465 (3)
N2 0.08281 (10) 1.00506 (18) 0.60616 (9) 0.0680 (5)
N3 0.24534 (8) 1.08819 (13) 0.47384 (7) 0.0449 (3)
N4 0.20856 (9) 1.17114 (15) 0.42189 (8) 0.0594 (4)
N5 0.27272 (8) 1.05141 (13) 0.60724 (7) 0.0449 (3)
N6 0.30392 (9) 0.92423 (14) 0.61542 (9) 0.0571 (4)

Source of material

Distilled water (30 mL) was added to a 50 mL round bottom flask containing a mixture of 4-methyl-1H-pyrazole(8.2 g, 0.1 mol) and tetra-n-butylammonium bromide (0.32 g, 1 mmol). With vigorous stirring, sodium carbonate (10.5 g, 0.1 mol) was added to the reaction mixture at room temperature. After stirring for 1 h chloroform (30 mL) was added. This mixture was heated at gentle reflux for three days turning to a pale yellow emulsion. The mixture was allowed to cool to room temperature and filtered through a Büchner funnel to remove the excess base. To the filtrate was added diethyl ether (100 mL) and H2O (30 mL). The organic layer was separated and the aqueous layer extracted with diethyl ether (3 × 20 mL). The combined organic layers were washed with brine (20 mL). The organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated by rotary evaporation. The resulting pale yellow solid (5.5 g, 65%) was then dried under vacuum. Crystals were obtained by slow evaporation in CH3OH within 10 days.

Comment

Tri(pyrazolyl)methanes are a class of ligands that has attracted much attention in recent years due to their ready coordination to metals in a facial arrangement [5], [6], [7]. These neutral ligands are formally derived from tris(pyrazolyl)borate ligands by replacing the central boron anion with a carbon atom and their generally higher stability than related pyrazolyl boron based systems. Trofimenko reported the syntheses of several tris(pyrazolyl)methane ligands based on pyrazole-3-yl or pyrazole-5-yl substituents and demonstrated that these neutral ligands bind both early (Cr, Mo, W and Mn) and late transition metals pyridine-4-yl substituents (Co, Ni, and Pd). The aim of these changes is to provide a small degree of steric hindrance and considerable coordinative flexibility [8], [9], [10].

Keeping the aforementioned research in mind, we herein describe the synthesis and the crystal structure of a pyrazole-4-yl substituent tri(pyrazolyl)methane. The pyrazole ring (N1, N2, C2–C4) makes dihedral angles of 86.33(11)° and 79.14(10)° with other two pyridine rings (N3, N4, C6–C8 and N5, N6, C10–C12), respectively. In addition, the crystal structure exhibits weak C–H⃛π interactions [C(2)–H(2)⃛Cg2a = 2.99(2) Å; Cg2 is the centroid of pyridine ring (N3, N4, C1–C3); a = 1/2 − x, 1/2 + y, z]. Furthermore, there are a weak π⃛π stacking interactions between pyrazole rings in the crystal structure. The short stacking distance Cg1⃛Cg1b is 3.7954(11) Å, and Cg1 is the centroid of pyrazole ring (N1, N2, C2, C3, C4), a symmetry code for Cg1b was given as (1−x,−y,−z). The stability of crystal structure can be accounted by those interactions.


Corresponding author: Gui-Ling Wu, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun 558000, P. R. China, E-mail:

Funding source: Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities

Award Identifier / Grant number: qnsy2017002

Funding source: Scientific and Technological Project for Agriculture of Qiannan

Award Identifier / Grant number: Qiannankehe[2018]12

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: The authors is grateful to the projects of Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities (qnsy2017002) and the scientific and technological project for agriculture of Qiannan (Qiannankehe[2018]12) for financial support.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-12-07
Accepted: 2022-01-15
Published Online: 2022-01-31
Published in Print: 2022-04-26

© 2022 Gui-Ling Wu, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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